emacs 21.3.1 printing on Intel/Linux

[kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold)]

Symptoms:

I can print from a command line using 'pdpr'
I can print from the emacs menu using Postscript Print (buffer/region)(B+W)
I cannot print from the emacs menu using Print (buffer/region)
I cannot print using M-x lpr-buffer

where cannot means that nothing comes out on the printer.  *messages*
says "Spooling...done"

Printing on my Linux setup uses a command pdpr, which the variable
lpr-command is set to.

What I'd like:

All the menu options to work

What I'd settle for:

Any way to print without that *%$#@% default header box with the title,
directory, page number and date.